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by hoodoof 10y ago
I had to tell friends that one of our closest friends had passed away. The only thing I would add to this article is to invite the recipients of the news to sit down first because there's a good chance they'll fall down.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
It seems so easy to include a command line option to specify which PEM file to use but git just won't do it. Yes I know there are ways around it and config files you can set up, but heck, it's just a command line "use this PE
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Linux needs to work out how to leverage the sophisticated UI goodness of modern browser renderers in its desktop. That's when Linux desktops and desktop apps will start to look good and modern. Also the only time I should ever see anyt
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Smack on. Also Windows 10 seems to be getting some good Linux integration.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Those carny folk have tricks us ordinary people can only dream of.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
The other thing is that burnt food is carcinogenic. LOTS of people eat burned BBQ food.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
I won't use pans with non stick surface coatings either. Over time, the non stick coating wears away, but where did it go? It tends to have gone away in the areas where the food goes. Thus the non stick coating goes into your food. I t
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Such a great name.
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Ask HN: Did you know that searching Facebook reveals your identity?
1 points by hoodoof 10y ago|0 comments
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by hoodoof 10y ago
All these garbage tests need to go into the standard lib. from jobinterviews import fizzbuzz, redblacktree, irrelevanttheoreticaltest fizzbuzz() redblacktree() irrelevanttheoreticaltest()
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by hoodoof 10y ago
mee too
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Some girl from a dating site Googled my phone number, found my name, searched for me on Facebook and then Facebook suggested I friend her, providing me with her full name, which I did not previously know. If you search for someone on Facebo
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Ask HN: How would you handle an E.T. signal with a 95 year latency?
2 points by hoodoof 10y ago|2 comments
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Strangely if I select text on this page and select copy then the page disappears.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
There was a funny rumour along those lines a while back in relation to Samsung/Apple. http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/samsung.asp
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Sounds like entitlement.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Their team photos look so happy that they seem about to explode in a sparkling cloud of rainbows and unicorns. http://wildbit.com/
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by hoodoof 10y ago
The question is will they come to invade our planet?
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Oh I must have read it wrong. I thought the scientists theorized about the existence of civilizations evolved entirely from a single Kardashian genome. The only thing I wondered about is what the difference would be between type I and type
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by hoodoof 10y ago
It says it could be a Kardashian Type II civilization. Scary thought.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
My point is not about how you got there. My point is that you undervalue what you have. Perhaps the most important point, and one not made here elsewhere, is that merely the fact of starting to create a company will impact your existing rev
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by hoodoof 10y ago
The problem is that if success comes too easily and/or too early then it is undervalued. I made a big pile of cash very early in my career and thinking that such big piles of cash were easy to make, promptly wasted it on "starting
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by hoodoof 10y ago
I really don't want to criticize the OP, but as an observation, the question reveals such a deep level of naivety about how to run a company that it bodes very poorly for the transition of this company to same-but-multiple-time-bigger-
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by hoodoof 10y ago
It's common policy for a company to require employees to take their leave beyond a certain accumulation. It's good for the financial health of the company but importantly it's good for the employees to be rested. It should be
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by hoodoof 10y ago
OK well all I urge is that you continue in your current configuration until you never need to work another day in your life. THEN do the company thing. You will regret it beyond all understanding if you take this incredible position you ar
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by hoodoof 10y ago
I would love to be in your position. My deepest, most honest urging to you is to NOT do what you are contemplating. Just keep doing what you are doing for as long as you can and take the cash out and put it into stable investments for your
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Advice to the CEO for BEFORE you run into financial trouble
7 points by hoodoof 10y ago|3 comments
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by hoodoof 10y ago
I would find it hard to stomach working surrounded by motivational posters.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
You've clearly been there.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Lots of secret meetings, CEO more stressed and distracted than usual, strangers visiting the office and looking around, hasty writing of documents. The dead giveaway - salary paid late or not at all. If your salary is ever paid late then ch

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